RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Orr, Steve
and I don't need a Hummer or Land Rover. Offroad in Montana, Steve -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 6:42 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle vs

Re: AQ

2004-01-20 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
It is defined as below in the Reference Guide: The session is waiting on an empty OLTP queue (Advanced Queuing) for a message to arrive so that the session can dequeue that message. I would treat it as an Idle Wait, similar to, SQL*Net message from client. - Kirti --- Ehresmann, David

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
I've got my GX21-9129-9 right here in front of me. It should be in a museum... I'll take Obscure Geek References for $800, Alex. Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message-

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
I do indeed. Rumor was that rpt/rpf was written by Larry himself. On 01/20/2004 09:39:34 AM, Goulet, Dick wrote: Careful Mladen, your revealing your age!! Bet you remember RPT RPF as well!! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 08:04:33 AM, Thater, William wrote: Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: oh damn, have we been at this too long?;-) Yes, we probably have. I must say that the spirit of Oracle Corp. has changed significantly since the days of Geoff Squire, Chris Ellis, Richard

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Probably because they were dropping RPT RPF SQR smells a lot like it, YUCK! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The RPT RPF Oracle class was what made me go

RE: Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
[snip] 120 col. punch cards? You had a high-density model. Mine only had 80 cols, of which 72 were usable for my goto-happy Fortran statements. SF No hard drives? My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Oracle vs Mysql Sounds like the old Oracle vs. Ingress battles. Oracle won because it was better at marketing. All detailed in the book The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison. I can see

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Careful Mladen, your revealing your age!! Bet you remember RPT RPF as well!! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On 2004.01.19 23:39, Jonathan Gennick wrote: I

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 10:09:34 AM, KENNETH JANUSZ wrote: Do you remember IBM System 3/10? RPGII flat files? 120 col. punch cards? No hard drives? My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM I've never done anything with System/3. My first IBM was 3084 with MVS and IMS, running on 8M RAM. After an upgrade, it was a

Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 9:19:44 AM, Goulet, Dick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: GD Well, PostGreSql has all of those features, but handling 100GB? Not sure not sure I'd trust GD it that far. You know, I talked to someone at last year's MySQL conference who was using MySQL to manage three

Re: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello, On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:01 am, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: Reuben, If the normal connection is throwing an error, then it stands to reason that the seond one would not connect either. You need to get a connection working first before you try something else. I can confirm that

Re: help

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here (Dante Alighieri) On 01/20/2004 10:24:27 AM, Bill Gentry wrote: help Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 --

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Orr, Steve
RPT was great stuff. In addition to SELECT statements it could do full DML, DDL, and DCL (I think.) Like Unix it was just particular on who it was friendly with. :-) Then there was RPT2C. Now there's perl. Eschewing the pointy-clicky stuff. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January

Re[4]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 9:34:25 AM, Jesse, Rich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: JR Then here's a rare treat for you! I *loved* SQL mods in RDB. I could make JR a program in MACRO, BASIC, FORTRAN, BLISS, Ada, DIBOL, or Mladen's favorite JR COBOL, and could effortlessly have them do DB work. Yep!

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Reuben, If the normal connection is throwing an error, then it stands to reason that the seond one would not connect either. You need to get a connection working first before you try something else. The Oracle error you are getting is complaining about the service_name entry. Is this the same

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Scott Canaan
Are you using Oracle Services? I've seen this happen before and we change SERVICE_NAME to SID and everything works fine. Scott Canaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (585) 475-7886 Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. - Tom Lehrer. -Original Message- Reuben

Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 09:19:44 AM, Goulet, Dick wrote: Well, PostGreSql has all of those features, but handling 100GB? Not sure not sure I'd trust it that far. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA Given the price, I believe that some testing would be warranted, don't you think? --

Re: AQ

2004-01-20 Thread Stephen Andert
However... do not blindly treat SQL*Net messages as Idle waits. They can be important indicators of networking issues. Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/04 08:24AM It is defined as below in the Reference Guide: The session is waiting on an empty OLTP queue (Advanced Queuing) for a message

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Stephen.Lee
If you have a line like this on your sqlnet.ora names.default_domain = world Then try putting an entry like this in tnsnames.ora dbname.world=(etc. etc. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Inprocess actually. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On 01/20/2004 09:19:44 AM, Goulet, Dick wrote: Well, PostGreSql has all of those features, but handling 100GB?

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
YES! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Do you remember IBM System 3/10? RPGII flat files? 120 col. punch cards? No hard drives? My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM

RE: RAC setup on linux [again]

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
There's a new-ish RAC/Linux install guide on OTN: http://otn.oracle.com/tech/linux/pdf/RAC_1030.pdf Interestingly enough the guide specifically shows *not* to alias localhost at all (page 9). Hmmm... Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:20 am, Scott Canaan wrote: Are you using Oracle Services? I've seen this happen before and we change SERVICE_NAME to SID and everything works fine. That does not work for me either. RDB -Original Message- Reuben D. Budiardja Sent: Tuesday, January 20,

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread Cary Millsap
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: FW: Disk capacity planning Cary, Good answer. The problem is most people concentrate on bytes because it's relatively easy and everyone understands it. IOs per sec is much harder to calculate for a new system and hence it's

RE: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Hamid Alavi
so what's the solution? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Someone is messing with standard package ... so it would seem. Raj Rajendra dot

Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, eric king wrote: I think he is talking about 100GB database. Can PostgreSQL and MySQL handle that size? We used MySQL in some of the web projects, but it just stores small set of operational data and later on those data are moved to Oracle as a permenant store. For small

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread Cary Millsap
Chris, Thanks. When people do what you say, it's kind of like what would have happened if NASA had used the following assumption throughout the Apollo project: Assume adequate quantities of breathable air... It would have made the planning phase much simpler, but it would have been a touch more

Re: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Hanks
If you're keen on Perl, the Spreadsheet-WriteExcel module is very handy: http://search.cpan.org/~jmcnamara/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.42/ With that you could slurp data out via DBI, and then build a customized spreadsheet based on the data. But I'd agree with what others have said. Dumping to

RE: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Either that or someone ran dbmspool.sql out of ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L so what's the solution? -Original Message- Sent:

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
what is the listener status?? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art ! -Original

Re: Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
The old IBM System3 machines used 120 col. punch cards. And initially they had no HD's. Everything was done with cards and a reader/sorter. To compile a program you took the code you wrote, punched it into cards and then put it behind a stack of cards that was the compiler. The machine read

Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 12:44:43 PM, Daniel Hanks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DH nd to be fair, MySQL _does_ offer foreign key constraints (it used to not, though), but only DH (iirc) if you use the 'Innodb' table type. My experience recently was just the opposite. I could create foreign key

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Back to MySQL and whether Postgres is the way to go, I can recall editorials debating whether Unix/Oracle would ever be industrial strength enough to support critical applications. The point the book The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison tries to make is that the technically superior

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread John Flack
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Re: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Michael Boligan
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Re: NEW LYRICS TO BEATLES SONGS - OT but nice

2004-01-20 Thread Jared . Still
Please, let's not turn this into a bulletin board. Spontaneous humor in a conversation (thread) is one thing, cutting and pasting completely non-relevant articles is another. For those of you that are non-native English speakers, the one thing... another thing phrase means don't do this. Jared

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Huh???!?? What did you search for? I get many hits searching for postgresql. Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:29 PM To:

Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 01:29:25 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: Back to MySQL and whether Postgres is the way to go, I can recall editorials debating whether Unix/Oracle would ever be industrial strength enough to support critical applications. The point the book The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread mkline1
I found myself working with some larger databases in the 500-800 GB range that also spawn into multiple test databases. I take a df -k or bdf and bring that into excel. Then I take a query on all autoextend and break that out by disk. then I put that all together and tell what's left on disks.

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread Paul Drake
--- Niall Litchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The bad news is that I don't believe that calculating IO/Sec *can* be done for a *new* system. At least I'd like to see how it is done. I'm willing to bet that any formula for doing it will include (x%) for 'overhead', which actually means

Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 1:29:25 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DW I can recall editorials debating whether Unix/Oracle would ever be DW industrial strength enough to support critical applications. I admit to not being involved in databases that far back, but I've read enough to

RE: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Burton, Laura
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Re: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Note that when you set an event with alter system, it will only apply for new sessions created, not for any existing ones. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:19 PM Oradebug is the right way to

Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our production DBAs does not want to use pga_aggregate_target on a 9.2.0.3 instance due to a possible memory leak. The only note on memory leaks and pga_aggregate_target I can find on metalink is: 334427.995 doesnt seem to apply to pga_aggregate_target. We

Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Mladen Gogala wrote: I have a book devoted to PostgresSQL at home. When I come home, I'll post the information. O'Reilly has Practical Postgresql, the full text of which is also available online: http://www.commandprompt.com/ppbook/ I know there are a couple of others

Re: AQ

2004-01-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! I think what Kirti meant here, is that from only database's point of view (scope), the SQL*Net message from client waits do not indicate any database bottlenecks. Anyway, when you have network bottleneck, from my experience you usually see other SQL*Net message waits, like more data to/from

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread eric king
What RPT and RPF exactly are? Are they some sort of reporting tool? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:19 AM RPT was great stuff. In addition to SELECT statements it could do full DML, DDL, and DCL (I

Re: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 02:59:35 PM, Tanel Poder wrote: Hi! Note that when you set an event with alter system, it will only apply for new sessions created, not for any existing ones. And that, exactly is the problem. First, when you set event using alter system, the setting is system wide. Second, if you

Re: Password management using profiles

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 02:34:45 PM, Ana Choto wrote: I have set up a profile where the passwords expire in 30 days, 6 characters minimum, grace period before the account locks to 6 days. It works as expected when the user logs in to our web site and tries to change the password. Users receive

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Hence why Sql*Server is out there. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Back to MySQL and whether Postgres is the way to go, I can recall editorials debating whether

Re: how do I interpret this in bstat/estat

2004-01-20 Thread Tim Gorman
Gene, This is the problem with high-level aggregate reports like BSTAT/ESTAT and STATSPACK. A possible problem is highlighted, but there is no detail on the possible cause. One way to get more info is monitor V$SESSION_EVENT view searching for sessions with lots of waits on enqueue wait-event:

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Jonathan, The only reason MySql is known better is that big mouth equal to Bill Gates in Finland. Otherwise PostGreSql is the much better product. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:49 PM To: Multiple

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Orr, Steve
Yupp. RPF=report formatter or some such. -Original Message- eric king Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What RPT and RPF exactly are? Are they some sort of reporting tool? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Eric, They were the precusors to Oracle reports. RPT was the report extraction tool, and RPF was the report formatter. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Bobak, Mark
You can also use DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_INT_PARAM_IN_SESSION and DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_BOOL_PARAM_IN_SESSION, in lieu of oradebug. -Mark Mark J. Bobak Oracle DBA ProQuest Company Ann Arbor, MI Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him

Re: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Jared . Still
Strange, no one has mentioned OWA_SYLK. Do a search on SYLK at asktom.oracle.com There are 2 versions, one for web output and one for excel output. SYLK allows cell references, etc, if needed, which you won't get with CSV. Jared Mudhalvan, Moovarkku [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Bellow, Bambi
But, unless you have old diskettes... you'll never see them. They died with the demise of v5. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yupp. RPF=report formatter or some such. -Original Message- eric king Sent:

Re: Password management using profiles

2004-01-20 Thread Ana Choto
cc Subject 01/20/2004 03:24 Re: Password management using PM

Re: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Tanel Poder
But you can't set events with it :( Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:39 PM You can also use DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_INT_PARAM_IN_SESSION and DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_BOOL_PARAM_IN_SESSION, in lieu of oradebug.

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 03:29:33 PM, Goulet, Dick wrote: Jonathan, The only reason MySql is known better is that big mouth equal to Bill Gates in Finland. Otherwise PostGreSql is the much better product. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA Dick, when you are talking about big

RE: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
ofessional -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:44 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Spool to Excel FileStrange, no one has mentioned OWA_SYLK. Do a search on SYLK at asktom.oracle.com There are

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread mkline1
I know I used to set up RPT and do all sorts of complex updating things. At the State and with things coming from mainframes, the data organization seemed to lend itself well to RPT. Since the organization was like of loops within loops, I could take the high order update and then loop through

RE: RAC

2004-01-20 Thread Hengen, Brian
If you are using Linux, you can use NBD's (network block devices) that will allow you to use a third PC as a storage device. You can download the drivers at http://nbd.sourceforge.net/ There's a pretty good paper out there as well, at http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kripac/orac-nbd/ that will walk you

RE: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Bobak, Mark
For that, there is DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_EV. ;-) -Mark Mark J. Bobak Oracle DBA ProQuest Company Ann Arbor, MI Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. --Unknown -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

RE: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Stephen Andert
One thing I've been looking for is a way to set a string parameter in another session, The two you mention handle INTEGER and BOOLEAN. I want a way to set TRACEFILE_IDENTIFIER to a string in another session to make it easier to identify trace files. Any ideas? Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Dick, when you are talking about big mouth from Finland, you probably don't refer to Pamela Anderson, also from Finland? The other person from Finland, whom I will not mention except by the first name (Linus) should be given credit for a wonderful OS that is successfully breaking the MS

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
If Mr Torvalds needs a security blanket, I'd be happy to send him several. Yes he crafted a wonderful OS I sincerely hope he knocks Billy Gates down to size. Seems to be doing one heck of a job at it, even with SCO on MicroSlop's side. MS Anderson appears headed for the twilight, thank GOD.

Re: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Faan DeSwardt
Have you tried $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql yet? This will usually recompile all invalid objects. Note that you have to run this script from SQL*Plus and have to be connected as SYS i.e. connect / as sysdba. HTH, Faan - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Ok, yeap I confused this with READ_EV, which can't read event from other sessions... Great job ;) Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:19 PM For that, there is DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_EV. ;-) -Mark Mark

Re: Developer Mailing List

2004-01-20 Thread Ryan
yes. they are listed on fatcity. the jdeveloper one is not active. ask your questions on the dev2k list. Its very active. Also, Ive been told the forums on otn are pretty active too. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20,

RE: Developer Mailing List

2004-01-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Mark - Maybe a good place to start is: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8group=comp.databases.orac le.tools (usenet newslist comp.databases.oracle.tools) If that doesn't suit you, post your request there. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RE: Developer Mailing List

2004-01-20 Thread TOMPKINS, MARGARET
If you are looking for Oracle Development Tools, then check out the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG) at www.odtug.com On the home page you can go to the list serve page where you can sign up for any or all of about a dozen list serves devoted to Oracle tools. They are free so

RE: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-20 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
For further testing but will try do do so and report some more. Regards, Jeroen -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Stephane Faroult [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 20 januari 2004 20:59 Aan: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Onderwerp: Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rich Amazon - Enter MySQL - 412 hits. The first screen of books are nearly all devoted to MySQL. Enter Postgres - 94 hits. None of the books on the first screen seem to be devoted to Postgres, but just mention it incidentally. Google - Enter MySQL - 15.6 million hits. Postgres -

RE: RAC

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Any experience with ENBD (Extended NBD), also from SourceForge? Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Ahh. Re-read my post. The proper name of the product is postgresql and not postgres. You should find 112 hits on books... HTH! :) Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message

RE: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Hamid Alavi
So what's the recommendation, how can I recompile all the SYS packages? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Either that or someone ran dbmspool.sql out of ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle

RE: MS Access

2004-01-20 Thread Eberhard, Jeff
You may want to look at the Oracle Migration workbench. http://otn.oracle.com/tech/migration/workbench/index.html http://otn.oracle.com/tech/migration/workbench/index.html I don't know if the slides are still available but there was a presentation at IOUG Live! 2002 titled Migrating a Microsoft

RE: Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Grant Allen
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Re: Oracle vs Mysql if Oracle is offshoring its develeoping of its database, everyone

Re: how do I interpret this in bstat/estat

2004-01-20 Thread Gurelei
Tim, Thanks a lot. This does help. The data that I have are a result from a test run, so I can't do anything right now, but this does give me something to look at if I see the enqueue timeouts increasing in the database in the future. thank you Gene --- Tim Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
At 03:29 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: I do indeed. Rumor was that rpt/rpf was written by Larry himself. Now I understand! I once applied for a job at Oracle, and got asked: What do you think about RPT/RPF. My answer: Probably som hobby-project of one or another developer, which, after demonstration

Re: OT: Developer Mailing List

2004-01-20 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi, There is a newsgroup comp.databases.oracle.tools that covers Oracle development. kind regards Pete -- Pete Finnigan email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.petefinnigan.com - Oracle security audit specialists Book:Oracle security step-by-step Guide - see http://store.sans.org for

Re: Password management using profiles

2004-01-20 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Password management using profiles ity.com

Re: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Richard
Hi Maryann, I can do this easily when creating a new table using: create table new_table as select emp_id, row_number() over (partition by emp_id order by rec_id) as rec_id from original_table; Translating this into an update statement is probably a bit awkward for me - I'd just

RE: RAC

2004-01-20 Thread Hengen, Brian
Not personally. The testing that I did last year just used regular NBDs. I'm not sure what the difference is. Basically, the NBDs allow you to use container files as raw devices -- it's nice because you don't need to mess around with the disks, just create some files and serve them up through

Re: OT: Developer Mailing List

2004-01-20 Thread Jared . Still
There is no other list similar to this one. Mark Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/2004 01:29 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:OT: Developer Mailing List Hi Folks,

Re: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Gram
Maryann You can use the new windowing function, here is test select working on emp :-) select deptno, row_number() over (PARTITION BY DEPTNO order by deptno) from emp / DEPTNO ROW_NUMBER()OVER(PARTITIONBYDEPTNOORDERBYDEPTNO) --

RE: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Jared . Still
Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/2004 12:59 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Spool to Excel File SYLK allows cell references, etc, if needed, which you

Re: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-20 Thread Maryann Atkinson
select deptno, row_number() over (PARTITION BY DEPTNO order by deptno) from emp / Hm... but thats not available in 8i, is it? and besides, I want to update the table, not just select from it... ... thx maa At 06:19 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: Maryann You can use the new windowing function,

RE: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-20 Thread Eberhard, Jeff
Not pretty but it should work: SQL create or replace procedure emprec 2 is 3cursor empcursor is 4 select empno, recno from emptest order by empno for update of recno; 5v_empno number := 9; 6v_count number := 0; 7 begin 8for x in empcursor loop 9

Re: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
Maryann Atkinson wrote: I have a 1-rows table with 2 columns, Emp_ID and Req_ID. There are about 150 different emp_ids in these 1+ records. What I want to do is the following: For every different Emp_id, I need the Rec_ids that corresponds to it to be updated/renumbered

Re: Parallel Query determined by?

2004-01-20 Thread Jared . Still
No other replies yet, so here goes. First of all, what does it really mean when you say: users are complaining that Precise is showing a whole lot of time in Parallel Sync Wait. Are these end users, or developers? Seems rather curious that users would be mentioning this. Second, what % of

RE: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Hamid Alavi
Yes it's fix all the invalid objects. Thanks all -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Have you tried $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql yet? This will usually recompile all invalid objects. Note that you have to run this

RE: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-20 Thread Maryann Atkinson
At 06:49 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: Not pretty but it should work: It does, thanks! maa SQL create or replace procedure emprec 2 is 3cursor empcursor is 4 select empno, recno from emptest order by empno for update of recno; 5v_empno number := 9; 6v_count number

Re: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Richard
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RE: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Mudhalvan, Moovarkku
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:29 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Spool to Excel File If you use tab separated columns, you can also generate formula's that look like text, but work just fine in the spreadsheet! Didn't realize

Re: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Gram
Maryann The select workes on 8i, but the update part I have to think som time over :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] oracle]$ sqlplus scott/tiger SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Wed Jan 21 01:43:33 2004 (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle8i

Re: problem with log version

2004-01-20 Thread Paul Drake
--- Mauricio VĂ©lez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody I'm trying to recover a full database from a hot backup. When I execute the following instruction: SQL recover database using backup controlfile until cancel; Then I obtain the error ora-00331, This is the output:

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Open the sqlnet.ora. What is NAMES.DEFAULT_DOMAIN set to. Add that as a suffix to the DEV_DB entry. If there is no sqlnet.ora or it has no NAMES.DEFAULT_DOMAIN entry try adding .world: DEV_DB.{whatever_names.default_domain_is | world} = .. At 11:09 AM 1/20/2004, you wrote: what is the listener

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